“Internal Representations in NLP is the ‘content’ of our thinking or the confirmation of information which includes pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes, smells and self talk (Auditory Internal Dialog – Aid).”

NLP Eğitmeni David Molden:

“Internal Representation: When we have filtered ‘external events’, we end up with a unique internal representation of them. This will consist of images, sounds and feelings that we create as our own internal map of the external territory. Our internal representation influences our ‘state’, which affects our ‘physiology’ and the tree components interact to form ‘behaviour’.”

David Hammond:

“Dr. Milan Ryzl states: When information emerges into conscious experience, it is dependent on our psychological frame of mind – whether we are holding basically positive or negative attitudes (tutumlar). If our mental structure is NOT positively receptive, we are quite apt to distort the information, because as Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler (a professor of psychology at the City College of New York) points out, it is being filtered through our personality. (bkz. Milan Ryzl Yöntemi: 1. Focus; 2. Flow; 3. Freedom from Distortion; 4. Receive Psychic Information and Images you want).”

NLP Eğitmenleri Tad James ve Wyatt Woodsmall:

“We create our internal representations of the events in our lives by filtering the information comes in through our Five Senses (bkz. Duyusal Girdi Kanalları Beşlisi). The Process of filtering ‘deletes’ (siler), ‘distorts’ (çarpıtır) and ‘generalizes’ (geneller) the information so that we do NOT exceed the seven chunks of information available to our ‘conscious minds’. HOW we filter is a result of ‘Meta Programs’, ‘Values’, ‘Beliefs’, ‘Decisions’ and ‘Memories’.”

NLP Eğitmeni Anthony Robbins:

“The configuration of information you ‘create’ and ‘store’ (Depolamak, Biriktirmek) in your mind in the form of ‘pictures’, ‘sounds’, ‘feelings’, ‘smells’ and ‘tastes’. (bkz. inner talk). To ‘recall’ what the house you grew up in looked like, unless you are ‘actually there’, you ‘remember’ an ‘internal representation’.”

“Our practical problem is to make our ’emotions’ our ‘helpful servants’ and to keep them from getting the mastery. They are subject to training through the supremacy of the intelligence. The habit of acting from intelligence rather than from emotion (Karşılaştır. Daniel Goleman ve Jillian Sawers ile) is the chief distinguishing mark of a civilized and developed being (bkz. Fevri Davranışları kontrol altına almak). ‘Self Mastery’ is the prime mark of higher manhood and womanhood. ‘He that ruleth himself is greater than he that taketh a city.’ The conquest of anger, hatred, prejudice, passion and selfishness is the essence of spirit.”

“Although we are NOT aware of it, the words and phrases we use indicate the representational system we are using at any one time. When your boss ‘likes the sound’ of your idea, it is an auditory modality in operation.”

Göz Hareketlerindeki Temsil Sistemleri İpuçları

“We move our eyes in different directions in a sistematic way depending on how we are thinking. Neurological studies have shown that ‘Eye Movement’ both laterally and vertically seems to be associated with activating different parts of the brain. These movements are called ‘Lateral Eye Movements’ (LEM) in Neurological Literature. In NLP they are called ‘Eye Accessing Cues’ because they are the ‘Visual Cues’ that let us know how people are ‘accessing information’. There is some ‘innate neurological connection’ between ‘Eye Movements’ and ‘Representational Systems’, for the same patterns occur worldwide with thw exception of the basqueregion of Spain.”

NLP Eğitmeni David Molden:

“The ‘Eye Movement Patterns’ provide ‘Cues’ (İpuçları, İşaretler) to the way a person is ‘Accessing Information’ and to how they are representing the world. Remember the functional model of communication: External Events – Filters – Internal Representations – Mental States – Physiology – Behavior (Response to External Events) – Results. And remember how the Filters Generalize, Delete and Distort External Events to form an Internal Representation of them. Eye movement is one way of telling which of the ‘communication channels’ are being used to form that presentation. Is it a Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic Representation of the world? We actually use all three (VAK), but we may have an unconscious preference for the most developed channel and use that one most often. This is called the preferred representation system and will be the one used most to process information.”

“Your mental pictures, sounds and feelings all have certain qualities. Your pictures, for example, have brightness and colour, your sounds have rhythm and tone, your feelings have a certain texture and temperature. These qualities are known in NLP as ‘Submodalities’ (Alt Sistemler). The senses are the ‘modalities’ we use to think, so the qualities of the ‘Sense Experience’ (Duyusal Deneyim) are ‘submodalities’. Submodalities are not new. They were first described by Aristotle as ‘Common Sensibles’, that is, the ‘Qualities’ that all the senses share. These ‘Common Sensibles’, or ‘Submodalities’ common to all the representational systems, are:

1. Location: All sense experience is experienced as coming from somewhere.
2. Distance: The location will be a certain distance way-near or far.
3. Intensity: We judge all sense experience as more or less intense.
4. Associated and Dissociated: We will be either ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ our experience.”

NLP Eğitmenleri Joseph O’Connor ve Ian McDermott:

“Our ‘body awareness’ also has a submodality structure and so do ‘self esteem’ and ‘physical health’. The way we think of ourselves ‘affects’ our ‘body’, for ‘mind and body are connected’. These ‘images’ and ‘feelings’ are often unconscious. A great deal of work has been done in Mind-Body Medicine on the ‘power of visualization’ in health and illness.”

NLP Eğitmenleri Joseph O’Connor ve Ian McDermott:

“Association (Katılımcı, İçeriden Gözlem) and dissociation (İzleyici, Dışarıdan Gözlem) are two very important submodalities (Alt Sistemler).

You are ‘associated’ when you are ‘inside an experience’, seeing it through your own eyes. When you are ‘associated’, you are in the present moment, aware of your body and your feelings. An associated state is ‘in time’ (Zaman İçinde).

You are ‘Dissociated’ from an experience when you are outside it, seeing yourself at one remove. When you are dissociated, you feel slightly distant, ‘not quite with it’, in a reflective mood. You are objective and thinking about things, planning the future or contemplating the past. A dissociated state is ‘through time’ (Zaman Yoluyla).

“We Achieve the ‘results’ (Sonuçlar) we do through the programs we run in our minds and in our actions. Personal programs are a ‘Sequence’ of mental and behavioral codes. The programs are managed by your unconscious mind. These programs are known as ‘strategies’.”

NLP Eğitmeni Joseph O’Connor:

“Strategies have three essential ingredients:

1. An outcome.
2. A sequence of representational systems.
3. The submodalities of the representational systems.

“(…) to see the Hill (Ve); tell myself ‘Oh! No! This is going to be a problem’ (Aid); picture how difficult it was going to be (Vic); start to feel frustrated with myself (Ki). So the ‘Sequence’ was: Ve – Aid – Vic – Ki.”

2. Sue Knight‘ın Kocasının Bisikletle Tepeye Çıkış Stratejisi:

“He looked down he watch the pedals (Ve); listened to the regular rhythm of the pedals (Ae); he said to himself like ‘That is good!’ (Aid); and he felt satisfied (Ki). So the ‘Sequence’ was: Ve – Ae – Aid – Ki.”

“During the Summer of 1984, we ended the camp with a ceremony in which all the kids got ‘Gold Medals’ like the ones in the Olimpics. I got back to my room feeling bone tired. I heard a knock at my door. I opened the door to find a young boy there. He said, ‘Mr. Robbins, I need your help!’ (…) behind him, there was a little girl crying her eyes out.
I asked what the matter was and the boy told me she did not want to go home. I said to bring her in, and I’d ‘anchor’ (Çapalamak) her, and she’d feel better and go home. He said she did not want to go home because her brother, who lived with her, had been sexually abusing her for the last seven years.

So I brought them both in, and using the ‘tools’ we have talked about in this book (Unlimited Power) , I ‘changed’ her ‘Internal Representation’ (İçsel Temsil) of those Negative Past Experiences so that they NO LONGER created any Pain. Then I ‘Anchored’ her into her most Resourceful and Powerful States and ‘Linked Them’ (bkz. Temsiller Zinciri, Gestalt) with her NOW Altered Internal Representations (ŞİMDİ Değiştirilmiş İçsel Temsiller) so that the very Thought or Sight of her brother (bkz. Trigger, Tetikleyici, Ateşleyici) would immediately put her in a State of Being in charge.

After this ‘Session’, she decided to Call her brother. She got on the phone in a Totally Resourceful State and woke him up. ‘Brother!’, she said in a ‘Tone’ he had probably never heard before in his life. (…).”